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Racism tears down your insides so that no matter what you achieve, you're not quite up to snuff. -- Alvin Ailey
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There was still no likelihood that we could make a living from dance. We were doing it because we loved it ... We realized how full we felt; we were surrounded by music and dancing and joy. -- Alvin Ailey
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Choreography is mentally draining, but there's a pleasure in getting into the studio with the dancers and the music. -- Alvin Ailey
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Making dances is an act of progress; it is an act of growth, an act of music, an act of teaching, an act of celebration, an act of joy. -- Alvin Ailey
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In this business, life is one long fund-raising effort. -- Alvin Ailey
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To be who you are and become what you are capable of is the only goal worth living. -- Alvin Ailey
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But the dance speaks to everyone. Otherwise it wouldn't work. -- Alvin Ailey
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We still spend more time chasing funds than we do in the studio in creative work. -- Alvin Ailey
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It will take very sophisticated marketing to achieve our aim of bringing more black people into the theater. -- Alvin Ailey
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Money is a never-ending problem. -- Alvin Ailey
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One of the processes of your life is to constantly break down that inferiority, to constantly reaffirm that I Am Somebody. -- Alvin Ailey
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I'm attracted to long-legged girls with long arms and a little head. -- Alvin Ailey
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The creative process is not controlled by a switch you can simply turn on or off; it's with you all the time. -- Alvin Ailey
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Sometimes you feel bad about yourself when there's no reason to. -- Alvin Ailey
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No matter what you write or choreograph, you feel it's not enough. -- Alvin Ailey
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If you live in the elite world of dance, you find yourself in a world rife with racism. Let's face it. -- Alvin Ailey
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My feelings about myself have been terrible. -- Alvin Ailey
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I wanted to explore black culture, and I wanted that culture to be a revelation. -- Alvin Ailey
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Nothing personal; I just don't have people over. -- Alvin Ailey
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I always want to have more dancers in my company. -- Alvin Ailey
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One of the worst things about racism is what it does to young people. -- Alvin Ailey
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Everything in dancing is style, allusion, the essence of many thoughts and feelings. The abstraction of many moments. -- Alvin Ailey
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My lasting impression of Truman Capote is that he was a terribly gentle, terribly sensitive, and terribly sad man. -- Alvin Ailey
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My dancers must be able to do anything, and I don't care if they are black or white or purple or green. I want to help show my people how beautiful they are. I want to hold up the mirror to my audience that says this is the way people can be, this is how open people can be. -- Alvin Ailey
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Dance is for everybody. I believe that the dance came from the people and that it should always be delivered back to the people. -- Alvin Ailey
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I am trying to show the world that we are all human beings and that color is not important. What is important is the quality of our work. -- Alvin Ailey
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Lena Horne is the sweetest and most adorable woman in the world. -- Alvin Ailey
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I always want more. -- Alvin Ailey